Nagios errors !!

[Jai Ganesh]

okay, i now have only these entries in hostgroups.cfg

define hostgroup{
        hostgroup_name  admin
        alias           administrator
        members         example.com
}

now i get this error :

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Error: Invalid host object directive '#'.
Error: Could not add object property in file
'/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg' on line 3.
 
this is my hosts.cfg entry :

# Generic host definition template
define host{
 # The name of this host template - referenced i
 name                            generic-host
 n other host definitions, used for template
recursion/resolution
 # Host notifications are enabled
 notifications_enabled           1
 # Host event handler is enabled
 event_handler_enabled           1
 # Flap detection is enabled
 flap_detection_enabled          1
 # Process performance data
 process_perf_data               1
 # Retain status information across program restarts
 retain_status_information       1
 # Retain non-status information across program
restarts
 retain_nonstatus_information    1
 # DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL
HOST,
 # JUST A TEMPLATE!
 register                        0
}
                                                      
                                                      
               
                                                      
                                                      
               
# Host Definition
                                                      
                                                      
               
define host{
 # Name of host template to use
 use                     generic-host
                                                      
                                                      
               
 host_name               example.com
 alias                   An Example Domain
 address                 www.example.com
 check_command           check-host-alive
 max_check_attempts      10
 notification_interval   120
 notification_period     24x7
 notification_options    d,u,r
}


THanks for ur help.

 --- Peter Hicks <peter.hicks at poggs.co.uk> wrote: 
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> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:01:49AM +0000, Jai Ganesh
> wrote:
> 
> > hostgroups.cfg :
> > 
> > define hostgroup{
> >         hostgroup_name  flcd-servers
> >         alias           The Free Linux CD Project
> Servers
> >         contact_groups  flcd-admins
> >         members         example.com
> >         members         10.10.22.220
> > }
> 
> As the error said:
> 
>   Error: Invalid hostgroup object directive
> 'contact_groups'.
>   Error: Could not add object property in file
>     '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg' on line
> 4.
> 
> 'contact_groups' is not a valid statement inside a
> hostgroup definition -
> see
>
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#hostgroup.
> 
> The behaviour has changed between Nagios 1.x and
> 2.x, documented in the
> changelog:
> 
>   "Contact group changes - The contact_groups
> directive has been moved from
>   hostgroup definitions to host definitions. This
> was done in order to
>   maintain consistency with the way service contacts
> are specified. Make
>   sure to update your config files!"
> 
> 
> 
> Peter.
> 
> 
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